Ukraine says it strikes Russia's large Saratov oil refinery
(Bloomberg) — Ukraine's General Staff said it made a successful drone strike early Sunday on a major refinery in the Saratov region, the latest in a series of attacks this month on Russian oil facilities.
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Earlier, the regional governor announced that UAVS from Ukraine hit an unspecified 'industrial enterprise' in the region, about 530 miles (850 km) southeast of Moscow.
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The drone activity also caused temporary flight delays at a local airport and at least one person was killed when drone debris fell in a residential area, the governor said.
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Videos posted on Russian social media showed flames and clouds of black smoke in the area of what was said to be the Rosneft PJSC-operated refinery.
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The incident can't be independently verified, and Rosneft didn't immediately reply to a request for comment on Sunday sent via WhatsApp.
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Later on Sunday, another drone reached a refinery owned by Lukoil PJSC in the Komi region, about 960 miles (1,547 km) northeast of Moscow, according to a Ukrainian military intelligence official. Local authorities didn't confirm the strike but reported an evacuation of workers of some enterprises because of a drone attack. Lukoil didn't immediately reply to a request for comment. The refinery has processing capacity of over 80,000 barrels a day.
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Russia also regularly targets energy infrastructure in Ukraine. On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, condemned Russia's targeted air strikes on the oil depot belonging to the Azerbaijani company SOCAR. They also blasted the Kremlin for an attack on a gas compressor station transporting Azerbaijani gas to Ukraine, according to a statement from Aliyev's office published on his website.
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With the Kremlin's war against Ukraine almost halfway through a fourth year, Kyiv's forces have recently stepped up hits on Russia's energy infrastructure in a move to curtail Moscow's ability to send fuel to the front lines and derive revenue from oil sales.
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A week ago, Ukraine said it hit the the Ryazan refinery, with a processing capacity of about 340,000 barrels of crude a day, and the Novokuibyshevsk plant in the Samara region, which has a design processing capacity of over 177,000 barrels a day.
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